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There's way too much baked into the current infrastructure (and two instances of layer 3) for this to be feasible. Access-control lists used for filtering, ide
by ra1n85 8y ago
There's way too much baked into the current infrastructure (and two instances of layer 3) for this to be feasible. Access-control lists used for filtering, identifying candidate address for services like NAT, and critical data plane operations like path MTU discovery all rely on the source address being available in the IP header. Sure we could re-engineer things to not be this way, but at what cost?
Realistically (and unfortunately), if you don't want to be tracked then you're going to need to do some combination of tunneling, proxying, and encrypting.
- ggm 8y agoYes. It wasn't a statement about the future, as much as about the past.